Iceland will have a male-majority parliament after all, election recount shows
Thirty ladies had been elected to the 63-seat parliament in Saturday’s election, up from 24 within the earlier vote. Earlier outcomes earlier than the recount late on Sunday had proven 33 ladies had been elected.
The Nationwide Electoral Fee has not revealed the outcomes on its web site and couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Solely three nations – Rwanda, Cuba and Nicaragua – have extra ladies than males in parliament, whereas Mexico and the United Arab Emirates have a 50/50 break up, in response to knowledge from the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
In Europe, Sweden and Finland have 47% and 46% ladies’s illustration in parliament, respectively.
Iceland, a North Atlantic island of 371,000 individuals, was ranked probably the most gender-equal nation on the planet for the twelfth yr operating in a World Financial Discussion board (WEF) report launched in March.
Opinion polls had forecast the governing coalition would fall in need of a majority, however a surge in assist for the centre-right Progressive Celebration, which received 5 extra seats than in 2017, pushed the coalition’s whole depend to 37 seats, in response to RUV.
Members of the present authorities, which consists of Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir’s Left-Inexperienced Motion, the conservative Independence Celebration and the Progressive Celebration, mentioned earlier than the election they’d negotiate continued cooperation in the event that they held their majority.
President Gudni Johannesson mentioned he wouldn’t hand a mandate to kind a brand new authorities to any celebration however would await coalition talks among the many three events.
The Independence Celebration remained the most important in parliament with 16 seats, unchanged from the final election. Celebration chief and former Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson mentioned he was optimistic the three events might kind a coalition and he wouldn’t demand that he lead a brand new authorities, RUV reported.
The Left-Inexperienced Motion received eight seats, down from 11 within the 2017 election, though two parliamentarians left the celebration shortly after the final election.
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